From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice, Washington, D.C.
February 3, 1959
LAFAYETTE RON HUBBARD
c/o Hubbard Dianetic Auditors School
Elizabeth, New Jersey
HUBBARD DIANETIC AUDITORS SCHOOL
275 Morris Avenue
Elizabeth, New Jersey
No investigation pertinent to your inquiry has been conducted by the FBI
concerning the captioned individual and organization. However, the files
of this Bureau reveal the following information which may relate to the
subjects of your name check request.
The December 5, 1950 issue of "Look" magazine contained an article
entitled "Dianetics - Science or Hoax?" which revealed that L. Ron Hubbard
was an obscure writer of pseudoscientific pulp fiction prior to the
publishing of his book entitled "Dianetics." Hubbard's book asserts that
"the creation of dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his
discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the
arch...the intelligent layman can sucessfully [sic] and invariably treat
all psychosomatic ills and inorganic aberrations," according to Hubbard.
"These psychosomatic ills, uniformly cured by dianetic therapy, include
such varied maladies as eye trouble, bursitis, ulcers, some heart
difficulties, migraine headaches and the common cold." According to the
article, Hubbard's book has "outraged scores of psychiatrists,
biochemists, psychologists, physicians and just-plain-ordinary scientists,
who look upon the astounding claims and the growing commercial success
of this strange new phenomenon with awe, fear and a deep disgust...
Hubbard's greatest attraction to the troubled is that his ersatz psychiatry
is available to all. It's cheap. It's accessible. It's a public festival
to be played at clubs and parties."
Orig and one to OSI-4
Pro rec'd: 1/19/59
[BLACKED OUT]/rlk
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Lafayette Ron Hubbard
Hubbard Dianetic Auditors School
The April 24, 1951, issue of the "Times Herald," Washington, D.C.,
revealed that Hubbard's wife charged in a divorce suit that "competent
medical advisors recommended that Hubbard be committed to a private
sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment
known as paranoid schizophrenia."
The foregoing information is furnished to you as a result of your request
for an FBI file check and is not to be construed as a clearance or a
nonclearance of the individual and the organization involved. This
information is loaned for your use and is not to be disseminated outside
of your agency.
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For L. Ron Hubbard's Navy war records, here is Ron the War Hero.
For further information on the Scientology organization's ideals and for copies of their once-secret documentation, here is Operation Clambake.